Today is the 70th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor. I was not alive at that time. Our territorial United States was attacked. The horror of that day is not just about history it is about people. We declared war. In many ways that war was a justifiable response to an act of willful and deliberate violence against the United States. We were clearly justified. Does that make World War II a "just war"?
In my life time, planes did not drop bombs on a military harbor, they became bombs, missiled into buildings with innocent people inside. Our response of violence and war in Iraq and Afghanistan are justifiable and our response justified but doe that make it a "just war".
I do not believe there is ever a "just war" as humanity and all humanities perceptions are based on human perspectives and both are essentially self-preserving, self-promoting, and self-vindicating.
Justice is welcoming all perspectives and perceptions without prejudice and acting with calmness and compassion toward all regardless of anything. If everyone one would embrace this concept of calmness and compassion there would be peace on earth and there would be justice for all. There would be no war not because there was a war to end all wars but because all accepted a way to end the fear of being conquered and the desire to conquer.
For me that is the "Jesus Way". War is humanities way. Witnessing peace and love toward all is divinities way.
About Me
- Don Paine
- I am a pastor and a clinical psychotherapist. My life's passion is defining healthiness from a human perspective and paralleling it to the holiness of God, divine perspective. Shifting perspectives creates a paradigm that is alongside of rather than over and against. The parakalein of God and the paradoxes of humanity are redefined. Humanity is all about winning and yet we are losing ground everywhere. Divinity is all about letting go of the desire to win and the fear of loss. The Divine embraces the world with loving care regardless of anything.
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